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Capcom Reiterates Wii Support, Backs Away From Heated Statements
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles wasn't nearly the hit Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles was, something Capcom France blamed earlier this week on gamers leaving Wii. "There's clearly a problem with this style of game on the Wii," said Antoine Seux, director general of Capcom France to Gamekult. "Gamers have obviously moved on to other things." Capcom is singing a slightly ...read more
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Nintendo Mentions DS Successor (With A Motion Sensor?), Zelda Wii This Year
Nintendo appears to have made the first comment about a successor to their popular DS. Speaking to Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata (as first translated by Siliconera, with clarification from Wired's Chris Kohler over Twitter) mentioned a follow-up to the DS would feature higher-resolution visuals (no surprise) and a motion sensor of some sort. Iwata did ...read more
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Sony Shows Off Super Stardust HD In 3D
Sometime next year, PlayStation 3 will receive a firmware update to display 3D movies and video games. Avatar: The Game is one of the first 3D-enabled games to arrive at retail, but it won't be the last and it's possible that publishers could release patches to add 3D to already released games. Like, for example, Super Stardust HD. Sony briefly showed a clip of Super Stardust HD, the ...read more
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Activision Planning November Release For Vietnam-era Call of Duty?
There’s been quite a bit of chatter this week about where and when Activision’s juggernaut Call of Duty franchise will be heading for its next tour, and if recent reports are to be believed, players will be shipping off to Vietnam this holiday season. Sources tell CVG that Call of Duty: World at War developer Treyarch have set a tentative release date of November for the acclaimed ...read more
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Xbox Game Room pricing, partners detailed
An online fact sheet has detailed the pricing structure for Microsoft's newly announced Avatar-occupied Game Room, and we'd suggest gamers stock up on Microsoft funny money. Players have three options: 400 ($5) grants a dual-platform license (playable on Xbox 360 and PC), 240 ($3) gets you the virtual arcade cabinet on one platform (Xbox 360 or PC), and, for the old-fashioned types, 40 ($0.50) is ...read more
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Xbox by the numbers: 20m Xbox Live users, 10m nongaming, 39m Xbox 360 consoles
While Microsoft's CES announcement that Xbox Live "is now an active community of over 20 million people" is somewhat blunted by Sony's claim of 38 million PlayStation Network accounts (though if our dozens of collective PSN accounts are any indication, some of us have more than one), Redmond did have some other numbers to share regarding Xbox and Xbox Live during tonight's CES keynote. First, ...read more
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Modern Warfare 2 soundtrack in the works, Zimmer says
Sure, Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer mode has already sucked you in, but just imagine what would happen if you added an invigorating soundtrack to all those bullet-soaked moments? Well, guess what: The game's soundtrack composer, Hans Zimmer, recently indicated in a Facebook note that the "soundtrack album is in the works." That's right -- soon you'll be able to take the orchestrated drama ...read more
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Moore reiterates EA Sports commitment to Tiger Woods
EA Sports president Peter Moore recently restated the publisher's commitment to golfer Tiger Woods in a blog post, despite the once pristine athlete's incredibly public fall from grace. Moore reaffirmed that EA's relationship with Woods has always been "rooted in golf" and that the company "didn't form a relationship with him so that he could act as an arm's length endorser." As for Tiger's ...read more
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Activision UK head polls execs from 'The Big Three' on digital distribution, clo
If it weren't for the fact that the recent "Andrew Brown asks" is a featured piece on UK-based MCV, the answers to his questions repeatedly starting with "Whilst" would have likely tipped us off to the Britishness of the feature and all involved. Both Sony's Ray Maguire and Nintendo's David Yarnton employ the subordinating conjunction whilst responding to questions about everything from the ...read more
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Stare into a Dark Void demo this week
Capcom announced today that a demo for its upcoming jetpacktion game, Dark Void, will be available this week on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. The demo, which promises "a combination of thrilling aerial dog-fighting, unique vertical cover action and on-foot combat," will be released Wednesday, January 6 on Xbox Live Marketplace and Thursday, January 7 on PSN. Wait, did it say we'd be fighting ...read more
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